HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YGMIR! I AM GLAD YOU'RE WITH US. :D :D :D :D Now it's off to the library to prepare to write an abstract for class. Due Saturday. The class is Plate Tectonics - graduate level, and the abstract is part of a larger10+ page term paper that's due in December. We're supposed to write it ...

Greetings friends, neighbors, co-conspirators, burners, malcontents and ne'er-do-wells! **tries to totally ignore the stinking hippies and tolerates the bathed ones. I told you I'd pop in on an unpredictable basis. I love you all and miss you. Thank you Goathead for the post card; it means a LOT. I...

Happy Birthdayt and many happy returns, trilo! "Hey, Rhino! Sounds like quite a schedule you have set for yourself. Landslide prediction would be valuable indeed. Please try to find time for checking in here once in a long while." -Hello and happy day to you, too Eliott! You've got it rig...

Greetings, friends. Pull up a chair, while papa Rhino tells you everything that's been going on. Yep, I'm settled in now as a PhD student. Took 3 hours in the fall to square things away, and I'm taking a full graduate level load of coursework to settle in. Research they grade as "S" or &qu...

here come the meanies. https://youtu.be/G2uCNd1AVJo The BLUE meanies? **Rhino's herd quivers in fear, as they know that Rhino is about to give Simon a "come-to-Jesus-update'** Hmpf. You could have done better than to recycle a piece of the old Yellow Submarine cartoon. Especially, since the mo...

so what's gen x? chopped liver? Nope. Gen Xers are the ones within that I use as investigators....they tend to really pursue problems and good or bad, give you a result you can hang your hat on. Hardcore data seekers. They aren't chopped liver, they make sure that the liver is working right. They a...

I'm sorry.. my post was meant to be ironic. In that I got called out for generalizing and perpetuating stereotypes about baby boomers as a response to a very generalized statement about the left being petulant cry-babies and reductionist arguments along the lines of if you support Trump you're a na...

So your advice is to invest in the evil corporations that are wrecking the environment? Take advantage of a windfall, grab the dollars while they're falling from the sky and stop whining.. You must be a boomer. Painting the wall with a very large splat-gun doesn't necessarily make for the best cove...

The definition of mining is take all and give nothing - well almost nothing under mining law. That's the unsustainable definition. The sustainable method was used here in Missouri, not far from Kansas City, in fact the site got swallowed up by Kansas City and morphed into the largest underground st...

Rhino, Ph.D. You wouldn't want my mother to start putting you in the same category as Dr. Joyce Brothers, who seemed to think "Doctor" was her first name. That's a good thought, Crypto. Miss you, btw.... **Rhino opens up the folder with his next example** There are some very smart people ...

One Good Twain deserves yet another, or perhaps three: 'Tis a short chapter. XII. The Cat and the Painkiller ONE of the reasons why Tom's mind had drifted away from its secret troubles was, that it had found a new and weighty matter to interest itself about. Becky Thatcher had stopped coming to scho...

Hmmmm.... Humor from the Old West?.... May I suggest Mark Twain's Roughing it . His vivid -- to put it mildly -- description of a running coyote... just might be my all time favorite passage in any book I have read. **Rhino encourages the gathered throng to give Elliot a standing ovation, cheering ...

I am honored, my friends. Just think, though, at one time, my egotistical inclination made me think to pursue a preacher's certificate by mail, and then I could have been 'Rev. Dr. Rhino". It just sounded too much like some asshole like Jean-Claude Duvalier (brutal dictator in Haiti) or Idid Am...

Many of us find ourselves -- by birth, economic necessity, or otherwise -- in situations we do not approve of. Thomas Jefferson owned slaves, even though he understood that slavery was an evil. It was simply not realistic to let plantations go to weed while they worked to change the system. Yes, ad...

Yes, indeed. In " Henry Clay.. ." author Remini points out that the Union used the "extra" decade to prepare for the still-expected war. Of course, the general industrialization of the North was the main component of that preparation, just as you say. One decade. A mere decade. ...

Whoa! Most recent post over a year ago?! Nobody reads anymore? At the Edge of the Precipice Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union (2010) by Robert V. Remini This is history, and important history. Seems Congressman and Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky almost certainly prevented civil war...

Hey rhino. I was thinking about you at decompression. I met a cook that keeps a jar of playa in his kitchen cabinet as a condiment. He swears that he uses it as a baking soda substitute, also as an ingredient similar to MSG. What do YOU think? Consider that MSG is a preservative. There's a little b...

:coffee: Thanks Marty I hope you get some good rain out there, the kind that has a chance to soak in a bit. I haven't heard much news about the drought conditions lately, hopefully you're getting some relief. And it is always good to see your kinetic vehicles Elliot! How is your research going ^Rhi...

I don't know if song-lyrics have been much recognized as literature before, but I'm all for it! Congratulations to Bob Dylan for winning it. Did you know he already won a Pulitzer and a couple of Grammys? He's on a different, higher plane of thought. I wonder what he and Einstein would converse abo...

GREETINGS, ALL! I had a great burn too. Memories were made and remembered. The bittersweet element of it didn't hit until later, knowing I won't be back for a few years. Don't worry, though. I will return. This PhD thing is something I've put off for a long time, but now.....I NEED to do it. I'll be...

Rhino here and in transit, still. I'll be pretty busy for a while with the PhD matriculation this fall. 3 hours of research to start, then full-time starting in the spring. Took two more samples of dust from the BRC area, and filled up a notebook full of notes and ideas. Then, I stopped in Winnemucc...

Thanks Madgirl. We haven't given up. She is hitting all the government offices and emails today. HARD. I on the other hand am finishing up at work. then toss the rest in the car and leave while it's still dark in the AM. I feel more 'less ready' than usual. but I'm ready. I'll send some of my magic...